We believe in Wi-Fi and the role that it plays in the global mobility market – as the only truly global network.
As part of that strategy and to support the need for roaming across that global network, iPass has joined the Wi-Fi Alliance to participate in development of the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint program that aims to improve the end-user experience in Wi-Fi hotspots. The company also announced its support for the complementary Wireless Broadband Alliance, Next Generation Hotspot (NGH) effort that together with the Passpoint program will simplify Wi-Fi hotspot access.
To aid the adoption of next generation Wi-Fi as a global service, we published a new whitepaper:
This paper outlines how NGH is likely to develop and how telecom operators should think about the evolution of Wi-Fi networks to improve subscriber satisfaction, reduce the churn rate of their premium subscribers and maximize their roaming revenues.
““iPass strongly believes that Wi-Fi will be the only truly global network and roaming will be an essential part of the experience. NGH and Passpoint are critical to remove the friction inherent in the connection process today and enable a much improved user experience.” Marcio Avillez, VP of Network Services.
“The emergence of the NGH initiative and the Passpoint program will very importantly remove friction from the user’s Wi-Fi experience. iPass enterprise and telecom service provider customers will benefit from these improvements as our services will be better able to determine appropriate networks based on the customer’s required policy decisions while maintaining the visibility and reporting customers require in today’s data hungry and security conscious world.” Barbara Nelson, CTO
We are excited to announce the MultiLink Connect solution because it’s unique features & proven benefits offer enterprises a competitive alternative to traditional WAN services.
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Our team has a strong history of developing and delivering low cost, high bandwidth – tailored wide area network & WiFi solutions. The MultiLink Connect solution is a natural evolution of our turn-key, PCI compliant, & fully managed IPVPN broadband solutions for enterprises with a significant number of geographically dispersed small offices and/or retail locations.
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We have seen a tremendous level of interest in our dual broadband MultiLink Connect solution and similar hybrid WAN architectures. The demand for higher bandwidth networks with improved up-time availability are driving the need for new solutions that are already disrupting the traditional WAN technologies and designs. Organizations deploying Wi-Fi, VOIP, video and other applications are quickly realizing that traditional WAN options limit their ability to scale, are costly, and are not positioned to meet the bandwidth requirements that are on the horizon.
Bandwidth demand is directly related to the cloud application explosion, more & more real-time applications, and supporting of Wi-Fi network access. The availability requirement is primarily a result of enterprises providing their business users with more business critical applications that are dependent on always-on, always-available, network access. MultiLink delivers this bandwidth for the myriad of cloud-based applications and portable devices without compromising the high availability usually associated to MPLS-based networks. In addition, many corporations have blurred the lines between what was typically “not for business use” apps by embracing the social networking mediums like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, and as such have created an unprecedented demand for bandwidth.
As a final note, American Family is great company to work with and we are extremely proud to have earned their business!
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The session was opened with a Introduction from Chris Bruce, CEO of BTOpenZone. He introduced the new message that the WBA’s Mission is to be a customer-focused, operator-led industry organization driving the next generation Wi-Fi experience.
There are now 71 members of the WBA with 26 just added this year. The diversity of the WBA eco-system includes Mobile Operators, Wi-Fi, Fixed line and other leading vendors and service partners. New members include BSG, Docomo, Juniper, SK Telecom, Trustive, Telia Sonera, US Signal, Sky and China Telecom.
Chris spoke about the explosive growth in mobile data traffic driving WiFi (his video about the report is below) and that public Wi-Fi hotspot numbers are increasing. There are new markets emerging as a land grab happens for key venues, like hotels and stadiums. In established markets there is increasing network density in places like retail outlets, outdoor hotzones and the phenomena of “flash crowds”.
The Olympic Park in London has 9 venues on the same park Wi-Fi, having had no coverage before and expecting 250k people to be using Wi-Fi. What will happen when an athelete wins and everyone wants to take a picture and upload it at the same time? No one is certain!
There is the challenge of Mobile Data. For MBOs, it’s traffic volume on home networks; for end users, it’s bill shock when roaming. Today, Operators are seeing Wi-Fi as part of the solution. The recently released Industry Report on Global Developments in Wi-Fi from the WBA highlights the key trends. Wi-Fi hotspot deployment is set to rise 350% by 2015 which will bring about an enhanced customer experience, offload busy networks and provided valued added services.
The rise of mobile data is driving deployment activity; global traffic will rise to 16.84 terra bytes by 2014, smartphones are overtaking laptops and there are serveral barriers to address such as access points and security. The WBA intitiative behind Next Generation Hotspots and seamless roaming allows operators to bundle access within broadband cellular packages.
Operators are embracing Wi-Fi for 5 reasons; the “5 C’s”: capacity, coverage, cost effectiveness, competitive edge and it’s complimentary. The WBA, WFA and GSMA are now collaborating to address the user experience challenge that exists today with Wi-Fi.
I will report back from the bottom of the 45 meter The Flyer which I will not be on!..Singapore has a thing of open air transports..:)
Here’s a look at Chris Bruce’s video on the report:
Nielson data showed the amount of data the average smartphone user consumes per month grew 89 percent in the last 12 months, jumping from 230 MB in the first quarter 2010 to 435 MB in the first quarter 2011. Key bytes about the data tsunami:
Those in the top 10% consume more, and the top 1% consumed even more
582 MBs per month for the average Android owner and 492 MBs for the average iPhone user
Windows 7 users also picked up, possibly due to more apps being available.
Devicescape: Average data offload to Wi-Fi is 40 percent by Lynnette Luna
Sampling 1 million devices offloading data to the Devicescape Virtual Wi-Fi Network over the course of a month, they found that each handset performed an average of eight Wi-Fi sessions a day or 240 in a month, averaging an offload of 40 percent.
In our August, 2010 Mobile Workforce Report, we found that nearly half of MOBILE WORKERS use Wi-Fi on their smartphones: 31.8 percent because it is faster than 3G, yet only 15.6 percent because it is cheaper.
People are spending more time inside mobile applications on average than they are on the web, according to an analysis from Flurry, a mobile analytics firm. And, we do know that mobile phone usage is causing a little bit of friction in relationships.
Chris spoke about the explosive growth in mobile data traffic driving WiFi (his video about the report is below) and that public Wi-Fi hotspot numbers are increasing. There are new markets emerging as a land grab happens for key venues, like hotels and stadiums. In established markets there is increasing network density in places like retail outlets, outdoor hotzones and the phenomena of “flash crowds”. 
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